Botswana minister of health visits Rice 360° Institute for Global Health

 

Botswana Minister of Health Dorcas Makgato and Rice Global Health Fellow Mary Kate Hardy

Rice 360° Global Health Fellow Mary Kate Hardy (right) demonstrates the BreathAlert neonatal apnea monitor and the IncuBaby neonatal incubator for Botswana Minister of Health Dorcas Makgato during a tour of the Rice 360° Institute for Global Health at the BioScience Research Collaborative Oct. 25. The apnea monitor and incubator are two of the institute’s Neonatal Essential Solutions and Technologies, or NEST, a planned package of affordable neonatal technologies that could slash newborn deaths in low-resource hospitals by more than 80 percent. (Photo by Jeff Fitlow)

 

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